Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How dare this blanc try to interfere with the way things have been done for centuries ? |
| 2 | This study seeks to build on the foundations thus laid and to take the assessment of the importance of the railway station a step further . |
| 3 | Massively symbolized by the uniform itself , as Douglas ( 1973 : 16 ) indicates , this obsession tends to focus on the body , for ‘ the more value people set on social constraints , the more value they set on symbols of bodily control ’ . |
| 4 | Er at the moment there are no savings identified and it seems to me that this Committee needs to deal with the budget as it finds . |
| 5 | I will attempt to show that answers to this question have to do with the almost hidden insidious nature of modern life . |
| 6 | Reference to annual series of population estimates indicates that in Great Britain , this process began to accelerate in the mid 1960s and has waned since reaching a peak in the early 1970s . |
| 7 | Combinations of this sort continue to appear in the work of a younger generation of British novelists . |
| 8 | This scenario seems to apply to the position in The Netherlands , otherwise seen as being in the forefront of community care . |
| 9 | This conclusion serves to dispose of the only question of principle raised in relation to the Barclays ( Asia ) prosecution . |
| 10 | I expect demand for this service to continue to grow over the coming year . |
| 11 | This prospect appeared to recede after the Washington talks , however , as both sides reported little progress on outstanding issues , particularly on the provisions dealing with air- and sea-launched long-range missiles , with the Soviet side still seeking a treaty to cover air-launched cruise missiles carried by tactical fighters as well as by heavy bombers . |
| 12 | If this exhibition means to report on the whole of twentieth-century American modernism then it has left out a great deal in the period between the two world wars ; work that is historically important and good even though sometimes ‘ provincial ’ with respect to Europe . |
| 13 | The report also rules that genetic manipulation of sperm , embryos or their parts is unethical , and that surrogate motherhood is not acceptable , The BMA this week refused to comment on the leaks . |
| 14 | This hedonist tends to live for the moment , because if one is constantly distracted from present experience by designs for the future nothing will ever be fully enjoyed . |
| 15 | This Government has decimated the housing stock of this country and the Tories in this Chamber dare to talk about the right to choose and the power to buy . |
| 16 | This firm continued to prosper during the more difficult postwar years , and by the time of Samuel 's death in 1829 was operating extensively as owner , charterer ( especially for the East India Company ) , sailmaker , and chandler . |
| 17 | This duty appears to overlap with the other duties vis-à-vis education which are imposed by the Act . |
| 18 | To redress the balance , this project seeks to build onto the earlier work an understanding of the role of ideologies of love , sharing , domesticity , familism etc. in intimate couple relationships . |
| 19 | This project seeks to look at the question of labour regulation and economic performance in a more rigorous manner by undertaking a secondary analysis of the 1980 and 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys and by incorporating into the analysis additional economic data . |
| 20 | This project aims to go beyond the individual firm boundary to examine the relationships between manufacturers of the technology and their customer firms . |
| 21 | This project aims to contribute to the empirical analysis of the relative concept of poverty . |
| 22 | Thus the flow of this information began to decline in the 1890s reaching a trickle , mainly on peripheral issues , by 1914 and ceasing totally after 1918 . |
| 23 | This situation began to change under the Yorkists as Edward IV built up the royal estates and improved their management . |
| 24 | At this Changez started to explode from the centre of his vast stomach . |
| 25 | But the almost perverse acceptance of this backwardness began to wilt before the spirit of improvement which gripped much of English society after mid-century , although Sussex gave up its secrets only with a hard battle . |
| 26 | For any political party that makes any pretence of seeking the government of this country to want to remove from the courts the sanction that my hon. Friend has described as so essential is utterly irresponsible . |
| 27 | Part of this problem seemed to stem from the fundamental assumption of such theories that everyone is , initially at least , conventional ( the opposite of the assumption of classical criminology ) . |
| 28 | ‘ We do not consider that the judgment in [ Dobson ] requires or allows us to disregard what we have earlier in this judgment sought to extract as the ratio of the decision in [ Morris ] . |